Organophosphates and health
By: editors, Lakshman Karalliedde ... [et  al.].
Contributors: Karalliedde, Lakshman.
Publisher: Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; River Edge, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
Subjects: Organophosphorus compounds -- Toxicology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Organophosphates: History, Chemistry, Pharmacology; title: Timothy C. Marrs; title: 2. Socio-Economics, Health Issues and Pesticides; title: Lakshman Karalliedde and Tim Meredith; title: 3. Factors Influencing Organophosphate Toxicity in Humans; title: Philippa Edwards; title: 4 Organophosphorus Chemical Warfare Agents; title: Timothy C. Marrs and Robert L. Maynard; title: The Acute Cholinergic Syndrome; title: Lakshman Karalliedde and John Henry; title: The Intermediate Syndrome; title: Jan L. de Bleecker; title: Organophosphorous-Induced Delayed Polyneuropathy; title: Nimal Senanayake; title: The Effects of Organophosphates on Neuropsychiatric and; title: Psychological Functioning; title: Malcolm Lader; title: 9. Effects of Organophosphates on the Neuromuscular Junction and; title: Muscle; title: Stanley Feldman; title: 10. Organophosphates and the Cardiovascular System; title: A.M. Saadeh; title: 11. Gulf War Syndrome, Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance and; title: Organophosphate Compounds: Diseases in Search of Causal; title: Hypothesis; title: Jeffrey Brent and Laura Klein; title: 12. Management of Organophosphorus Compound Poisoning; title: Lakshman Karalliedde and Ladislaus Szinicz; title: 13. Carcinogenicity and Mutagenicity of Organophosphates; title: Michael D. Waters, H. Frank Stack and Marcus A. Jackson; title: 14. Organophosphorus Agents and the Environment; title: Elwood F. Hill; title: 15 Biochemical and Toxicological Investigations Related to OP; title: Compounds; title: R. Swaminathan and Brian Widdop; title: 16. Monitoring Occupational Exposures to Organophosphorus; title: Compounds; title: Angelo Moretto and Marcello Lotti; title: 17. The Global Picture of Organophosphate Insecticide Poisoning; title: Lakshman Karalliedde, Michael Eddleston; title: and Virginia Murray; title: Index.